Sensible Signs

[Cudzoziemiec]

I expect Behave decently means a combination of Don't pee in the park and No hank panky.

Irrelevant comment, I love Tamil script.

[orienteer]

The first sign suggests the second might be a Spoonerism 

[The French Tandem]

Polite signs in Nuwara Eliya town gardens, Sri Lanka.

Photo taken during a most welcome midday apres luncheon (rice and curry) walk about, December 2007.

Whilst returning from the still ravaged post tsunami east coast, overland in an NGO flagged pick up truck with bum breaking 'shot' suspension. Leaving behind the dying embers of a most indecent uncivil war

This reminds me of a slightly less polite sign I read in the Geneva botanic garden some time ago, in front of a hole in the ground. The original was in french, but it translates to something like:  "This plant is missing because some selfish decadent moron stole it".

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[meddyg]

It's that time of the year again !



OK prob photoshopped, but you've got to get in to the spirit of things !

[Ham]

[hellymedic]

Excellent! Do you have friends in Toronto?

[meddyg]

Ian McMillan wonders if this is from the sixties ?

Well the yellow-black tape is psychedelic...

[Beardy]

Reminds me of that good old graffito: "it's no use standing on the seat/the crabs in here can jump ten feet"  (wall of the Edinburgh University Union toilets, ca. 1966).

to which is often added “if you think that’s high/dong go next door/the buggers can fly”

[nikki]

[quixoticgeek]

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[hellymedic]

I'm not sure that is sensible. If I'm asked 'Is water animal, vegetable or mineral?' I'd answer 'mineral'...

[JStone]

The yellow one - even though it removes the familiar exciting challenge of 'shall I risk it?'

[Cudzoziemiec]

Not only sensible but useful.

[Salvatore]

If you ignore the 1st 3 lines, the 4th might be useful.

[Ham]

[matthew]

Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

Please be patient this car has a black box fitted

[Cudzoziemiec]

Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

Please be patient this car has a black box fitted

Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

[Mr Larrington]

Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

Please be patient this car has a black box fitted

Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

“I slow down for tailgaters” many years ago, on the back of a taxi down Denmead way.

[Pickled Onion]

Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

Please be patient this car has a black box fitted

Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

“I slow down for tailgaters” many years ago, on the back of a taxi down Denmead way.

An acquaintance with a LR defender (who was generally no slowster) used to do exactly that if he got a tailgater on a single track road. He would slow down until he judged the gap was sufficient for the stopping distance at the speed he was going. If this made the boy racer in the following car get closer, then keep reducing speed. With the low ratio/transfer box (I don't know the exact terminology), a defender can happily drive at less than walking speed if necessary, something that's a complete pain in the arse in a boy racer car.

[neilrj]

An acquaintance with a LR defender (who was generally no slowster) used to do exactly that if he got a tailgater on a single track road. He would slow down until he judged the gap was sufficient for the stopping distance at the speed he was going. If this made the boy racer in the following car get closer, then keep reducing speed. With the low ratio/transfer box (I don't know the exact terminology), a defender can happily drive at less than walking speed if necessary, something that's a complete pain in the arse in a boy racer car.

Always a good idea to slow right down with a tailgater, if they haven't left a safe braking distance then effectively you need both lots of braking distance to allow for gentle braking so you aren't collected by the motion behind.

[Kim]

Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

Please be patient this car has a black box fitted

Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

“I slow down for tailgaters” many years ago, on the back of a taxi down Denmead way.

I've long since recycled the neurons as to where, but "Your tailgating will not intimidate my cruise control."

[Moleman76]

Did I report

"Pardon me for driving so closely in front of you" here, or among the motor-vehicle related topics?

[Pickled Onion]

"One cow apart"

[Cudzoziemiec]

Writing on the Ghost Signs website, ghost signs expert Sam Roberts says that the protection of the sign in Warmley “presents quite an interesting precedent, in that a sign can acquire protection within the context of planning being granted for a change to the building”.

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/ghost-sign-near-bristol-repainted-by-orders-of-local-council/

[Pingu]

IMG_9251_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr